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Wellbeing

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Trauma Healing Resources for COVID-19
SIL and other members of the Trauma Healing Alliance have partnered together to provide trauma healing resources specific to the C
8 May 2020 by Jon Hirst

COVID-19

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Writing "Wash Your Hands" in up to 7000 Languages
SIL is using Artificial Intelligence and crowdsourcing to build a list of the phrase "Wash Your Hands" in as many of the world's 7
24 March 2020 by Jon Hirst

NFP

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Helping Language Communities Create Their Own Books
The Bloom Library provides an easy-to-use digital publishing platform that a local language community can quickly learn and generate books from to be used in classrooms and literacy groups. The tool solves a key problem that many communities face: They want to advocate for literacy in their local language but don't have enough books to help their community members practice what they are learning. Currently the platform has 5000 books in over 200 languages. It supports PDF, ePub, audio books and video. The platform facilitates Sign Language diglots, picture dictionaries, leveled/decodable readers and complex non-roman scripts. Visit www.bloomlibrary.org 
6 December 2019 by Jon Hirst

NFP

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-13/smartphone-keyboards-for-traditional-language-at-cutting-edge/11513462?pfmredir=sm


 
16 October 2019 by Jon Hirst

Startup

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Helping Entrepreneurs Assess Their Engagement With Social Issues
This assessment helps an entrepreneur or business person to pick a social issue they care about and then learn how well they are addressing the issue in eight areas of their life. It offers mentoring sessions after the assessment is complete in order to help the person create a plan. Then the revenue from the assessment helps fund children globally learning about the same social issue. The product is at https://scriptsplash.org/social-issue-assessment/
3 October 2019 by Jon Hirst

NFP

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Helping Kids Take Social Action While Learning To Read
This program helps children learn about a social issue as they learn to read in their local language. At the same time it guides them in making a plan to address the social issue and share the fruit of their efforts with other children around the globe. The project is at www.Scriptastic.org.
3 October 2019 by Jon Hirst